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Boot Camp Installation & Setup Guide PDF
Boot Camp Installation & Setup Guide PDF
Installation &
Setup Guide
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Introduction
Installation overview
Step 1:Check for updates
Step 2:Prepare your Mac for Windows
Step 3:Install Windows on your Mac
Step 4:Install the Windows support software
Step 1:Check for updates
Step 2:Prepare your Mac for Windows
If you have problems creating a partition
Step 3:Install Windows on your Mac
If you have problems installing Windows
If you get a message saying Installer Disc Not Found when installing Windows
If Windows doesnt install properly
If the Windows installer isnt responding
If you insert the wrong disc during installation
Step 4:Install the Windows support software
If the Windows support software doesnt install successfully
If you have problems using Windows on your Mac
If you see No Boot Disk Attached when starting up your Mac
If the screen is blank or distorted
If you cant rename the Windows partition
If you have a RAID configuration
Start up using OS X or Windows
Set the default operating system
Select an operating system during startup
Remove Windows from your Mac
Learn more, support, and feedback
Introduction
This guide shows you how to install and set up Boot Camp, so you can use either Windows or OS X
on your Mac computer.
The Boot Camp Assistant app and this guide walk you through the steps needed to create a
Windows partition on your Mac and then restart your Mac using your Windows installation disc.
Then, follow this guide to install Windows and install software drivers that let Windows work
with your Mac hardware.
You install Windows with an installation disc you provide. On some Mac computers, you can
use a USB flash drive that contains a Windows 7 or Windows 8 ISO image downloaded from
Microsoft. Boot Camp Assistant helps you burn the image to the flash drive.
If you want to upgrade the version of Boot Camp or Windows on your Windows partition,
you dont need to use Boot Camp Assistant. Instead, click the Finder icon in the Dock, choose
Help > Help Center, then search for upgrade Boot Camp or upgrade Windows.
A printed copy of this guide, which contains information you need to refer to when
installing Windows.
The keyboard and mouse or trackpad that came with your Mac. (If they arent available, use a
USB keyboard and mouse.)
An installation disc with the 64-bit version of Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7
Professional, Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows 8, or Windows 8 Pro.
You must use a single full-install Windows installation disc. You cannot use an upgrade version
of Windows.
You may be able to install Windows with a USB flash drive that contains a Windows ISO image
downloaded from Microsoft. To find out, open Boot Camp Assistant, click Continue, and see if
the option Create a Windows 7 or later install disk is available.
To install Windows with a USB flash drive, you need the following:
To see how much free space you need on your Windows partition, refer to the documentation
that came with Windows.
Installation overview
Boot Camp Assistant helps prepare your Mac for Windows by creating a new partition for
Windows and then starting the Windows installer. Optionally, you can download the Windows
support software and copy a Windows ISO image to a USB flash drive.
Important:If youre using a portable computer, connect the power adapter before continuing.
1 Open Boot Camp Assistant, located in the Other folder in Launchpad.
2 Select the option to install Windows, select other options you need, then click Continue.
Here are the other options you can choose:
If you want to install Windows from a USB flash drive and you have a Windows ISO image,
select the option to copy the image to a USB flash drive. If this option isnt available, your
Mac doesnt support installing Windows from a USB flash drive.
If you havent already downloaded the Windows support software for your Mac, select the
option to download it. In a later step, youll install the Windows support software on your
Windows partition.
The disk on your Mac must be a single partition, formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). If
the disk already has more than one partition, you must repartition it.
The disk on your Mac must be an internal disk. You cannot use Boot Camp Assistant to install
Windows on an external disk.
If you have a Mac Pro with more than one internal disk and you want to install
Boot Camp on a disk that isnt in the first hard drive bay, remove the drives in the lowernumbered bays. You can reinstall the drives after you install Boot Camp.
If a dialog appears saying The disk cannot be partitioned because verification failed, try
repairing the disk using Disk Utility and opening Boot Camp Assistant again. If that doesnt
work, back up all the information on your Mac, then reinstall OSX. For more information, click
the Finder icon in the Dock, choose Help > Help Center, and search for reinstall OSX.
Follow these instructions for installing Windows on your Mac. Refer to your Windows
documentation for general information about installing and setting up Windows.
1 In the Windows installer, follow the onscreen instructions until youre asked whether to do an
upgrade or custom installation. Choose Custom.
2 When youre asked where to install Windows, select the partition named BOOTCAMP.
WARNING:Do not create or delete a partition, or select any other partition. Doing so may
delete the entire contents of your OS X partition.
5 Click Next.
The installer formats the Windows partition using the NTFS file system.
After installing Windows, install Mac drivers and other support software for Windows. The
support software installs Boot Camp drivers to support your Mac hardware, including AirPort
devices, the built-in camera, the Apple Remote, the trackpad on a portable Mac, and the function
keys on an Apple keyboard. The software also installs the Boot Camp control panel for Windows
and the Apple Boot Camp system tray item.
You can download the support software by selecting the Download the latest Windows support
software from Apple option in Boot Camp Assistant. The support software must be copied to a
USB flash drive formatted as MS-DOS (FAT).
1 An installer may start automatically. If it doesnt, double-click the setup.exe file in the BootCamp
folder of the USB flash drive that has the support software.
2 Follow the onscreen instructions.
Important:Do not click the Cancel button in any of the installer dialogs.
If a message appears that says the software youre installing has not passed Windows Logo
testing, click Continue Anyway.
You dont need to respond to installer dialogs that appear only briefly during the installation.
If nothing appears to be happening, there may be a hidden window that you must respond to.
Check the taskbar and look behind open windows.
3 After your computer restarts, follow the instructions for any other installers that appear.
4 Check for updated Windows support software by using Software Update or going to
www.apple.com/support/bootcamp.
Make sure youve installed the Boot Camp drivers. See Step 4:Install the Windows support
software on page 4.
After you install Windows and the support software, Boot Camp makes it easy to start up your Mac
using either OSX or Windows. To set the operating system, choose a disk with that operating system
installed as your startup disk and then restart your Mac.
In Windows 8, move the cursor to the upper-right corner of the screen, then click Search. Search
for Boot Camp, click Settings, then click Boot Camp.
2 Select the startup disk with the default operating system you want to use.
3 If you want to start up the default operating system now, click Restart.
Restart in OS X using the Boot Camp icon in the system tray
mm In Windows, click the Boot Camp icon in the system tray, then choose Restart in OSX.
This also sets the default operating system to OSX.
How you remove Windows from your Mac depends on whether you installed Windows on a
second partition or on a single-volume disk.
If you installed Windows on a second disk partition:Using Boot Camp Assistant as described below,
remove Windows by deleting the Windows partition and restoring the disk to a single-partition
OSX volume.
If your Mac has multiple disks and you installed Windows on a disk that has only one partition:
Start up in OSX and use Disk Utility, located in the Other folder in Launchpad, to reformat it as
an OSX volume.
1 Start up your Mac in OSX.
2 Quit all open apps and log out any other users on your Mac.
3 Open Boot Camp Assistant.
4 Select Remove Windows 7, then click Continue.
5 Do one of the following:
If your Mac has multiple internal disks, select the Windows disk, select Restore to a single
Mac OS partition, then click Continue.
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